Haven't waged war against India, won't resist arrest: Mehdi - Times of India

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"I think for the first time in the history there is a muslim guy who can enunciate in English and get his message across which really pisses off.." the interview ends here abruptly.

BENGALURU: UK's Channel 4 released late on India time a second interview of the man -- Mehdi -- the channel has been claiming handled the pro-ISIS Twitter handle from Bengaluru, in which the man's voice says he has not waged any war against the Republic of India or it's allies and that he will not resist arrest. But he has said he fears dying in an encounter.

"I have a suspicion that the police will come to arrest me. They may try to kill me and then they will say that I attacked them and they killed me in an encounter (sic)," the man told the Channel's reporter in an interview that ends abruptly after 2.21 minutes.

He goes on to say that he wants to make it clear that he won't resist arrest when the time comes. "And I do not have any sort of weapons with me," he said, adding that he will immediately surrender and what happens after that is a different thing. "But I have no intentions of resisting."

Bengaluru City Police, however said that they haven't got any calls or messages from this person offering to surrender.

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Answering a question on why he thinks he may be arrested, the man said: "They are saying it in the media. There's a manhunt going on right now and they won't take more than 24 hours."

On whether he feels he's done something wrong, he said: "No. I haven't done anything wrong. I've not harmed anybody, I haven't broken any laws of the country, haven't waged any war against the Republic of India...also I've not waged any war against any allies of India. But they might bring that charge (sic)."

He said that he only said "stuff" which people followed and that he also followed people on Twitter. "I only know what ISIS fighters or sympathisers said in public," he said, adding that he could not believe that his story was trending on news across the globe.

"...I thought it will die down in the first one or two hours, but it is still raging. I can't believe this," he said.

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